Behuria, Ashok

Did Pakistan learn from its Bangladesh experience? - Journal of Defence Studies - 15(4), Oct-Dec, 2021: p. 297-320

This article seeks to re-analyse the pattern of Pakistani response to the demands from East Bengal as a federating unit with distinct linguistic and regional identity, which led to eventual vivisection of Pakistan, and examine whether in the post-1971 years Pakistan learnt any lesson from its Bangladesh experience and used it to deal with similar assertions at ethnic and regional levels. – Reproduced



Bengali nationalism, Ethnic assertion, Federalism, Oneunit scheme, Bogra formula, Aghaz-e-haqooq-e-Balochistan, 18th amendment.